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With each passing week, it seems more and more apparent that whenever a big-league AI development company joins an interview, softball or otherwise, its execs just can't stop themselves from enraging the artistic community worldwide, at this point openly admitting that yes, their robots will take your jobs, all the while performing wild feats of mental gymnastics in their attempts to explain why that's a good thing.
Case in point, Dartmouth Engineering's recent interview with our old friend Mira Murati, a Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, who previously got lambasted across the internet for masterfully avoiding questions on how the company's text-to-video AI, Sora, was trained, during which she managed to infuriate thousands of Digital and Real-Life Artists in just one sentence.
Discussing the effect artificial intelligence has on human creativity, Murati blatantly admitted that some people will indeed lose their jobs due to AI's constant expansion, thus lighting the metaphorical torch of the artistic community's rage.
Said torch, however, was then thrown into a pool of gasoline and dynamite when the CTO propounded that those jobs stolen by artificial intelligence "shouldn't have been here in the first place", implying that AI models only leave beginning and/or low-skilled creators unemployed, a rather insulting take no matter how you choose to interpret it. Needless to say, many of those who have watched the interview, or at least the moment described above, found Murati's stance far from reassuring, disliking the original video to oblivion and leaving thousands of angry comments across various social media platforms.
"Just like spreadsheets changed things for accountants and bookkeepers, AI tools can do things like writing online ads or making generic images and templates," the statement reads. "But it's important to recognize the difference between temporary creative tasks and the kind that add lasting meaning and value to society. With AI tools taking on more repetitive or mechanistic aspects of the creative process, we can free up human creators to focus on higher-level creative thinking and choices. This lets artists stay in control of their vision and focus their energy on the most important parts of their work."
As it usually happens, despite several lengthy paragraphs worth of text, the usual meaning of an AI firm's representative's words got buried underneath dozens of buzzwords, as you can see for yourself in the full statement attached below:
So, what do you think about all of this? What do you think about Murati's (and, apparently, OpenAI's) opinion on human artists? Do you have a job that "shouldn't have been here in the first place"? Tell us in the comments!
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